[Fozzybear]

Hi all,

I'm not quite sure what to write here as I don't usually go in for these 'hello world' posts but since there were suggestions on the site to do so I thought I would write one this time.

I'm Paul from Essex in the UK and am a fairly new ebook user. I downloaded a lot of Project Gutenberg ebooks some years ago due to curiosity and I had a reader program on my old Palm organiser and my iPod Touch, but the tiny LCD screens meant I never actually got around to reading any books on them. I've owned a Kindle Keyboard 3g for about a month but must apologise to the authors on the forums as I'm probably going to remain a paper book only buyer and I got the Kindle purely to read classics and (legal) free books, and for the 3g web browser.

I read a lot of Terry Pratchett but my tastes are reasonably broad, including historical novels by Bernard Cornwell, natural history (I'm a bird/wildlife watcher and photographer in my spare time), thrillers, sci-fi and... well, anything that piques my interest really. So far on my Kindle I've read Taming Mighty Alaska: an RV Odyssey by William C Anderson, Three Men In A Boat by Jerome K. Jerome and am currently reading Charles Dickens' Great Expectations. Before that in 'paper book land' I'd had a long dry spell in my reading and had been reading Terry Pratchett's Snuff for absolutely ages so the Kindle has helped to get me interested in reading again.

Not sure what else to write really. I work in electronics, occasionally read science books like Stephen Hawking's Brief History of Time, I enjoy Simon Barnes' nature books (How To Be Wild is highly recommended) and own a lot of books about nature but haven't actually got around to reading most of them! I like a selection of good books to leaf through and tend to collect wildlife field guides (birds, plants, insects and so-on) and David Attenborough books.